Saturday, April 2, 2011
WHY NOT...KIDS BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY
So parents of truant kids finally get it when a uniformed truant officer knocks on the front door. It has come to the point of “no more, the law has just stepped into the picture. Kids that will lie to parents or teachers about why their desks have been unused so often must now try lying to someone with time and sufficient authority to exact penalties. A Juvenile Probation Officer is now part of a team attempting to lessen truancy in the city's public schools. Up until now, apparently, schools have not earned the respect due any organization whose primary objective is to educate. It can also be said that too many heads of households dodge the responsibility required to properly prepare their brood for life with others. Or lack the courage to challenge errant ways by kicking some butt. Not sure even the new plan will work our school administrators will pass the buck to and pray the Juvenile Probation Officers are capable.
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If the child does not want to go to school and the parent is indifferent there is very little that can be done. The SPSS should set the bar, after exceeding a number of unexplained absences the child is expelled (period). They become the problem for the parent and perhaps motivate them to being a better parent. The child may re-enter school depending upon their age, and must repeat the year after passing a grade level competency exam. If they fail the test they go back another grade. Tough love in tough times.
Sure, let's take another social/personal problem and hand it to the police department. They've got all the free time in the world, right? They already referee petty disagreements between adults who cannot control themselves, serve as the primary mental health care professionals in town, taxi juveniles home who are after curfew and can't get a responsible parent to respond - why not let them enforce school attendance, too?
If they don't go to school then they are already a problem for the police. If they are forced to school they soon find a way back out to the streets. If they drop out they are on the streets. Regretfully SPD is the last recourse before they become wards in the state prison system. It's easy to have a child, it's another thing to be a parent and that is the crux of the problem.
Keeping a child that wants out in the classroom creates a snowball effect. They talk back, cause distractions and become nuisance to the class. The other students are placed at a disadvantage all because of one bad apple. When we no longer can afford to be a walfare nation those individuals will aspire to become toilet cleaners.
Finally a solution to Suffolk's Public School dropout problem, an alternative to teen couch potato culture and all the smoke your lungs can inhale. Friends our problems have been answered thanks to President Obama's AmeriCorps. I'm so happy I want to run to the nearest gas station and yell out his name. Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm, mmm, mmm.
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